Best Day Ever

So fast forward from that fateful day in July. It's March 28th a Wednesday again. I'm miserable and 50lbs heavier. Almost 200lbs!!!! I'm standing in the kitchen doing dishes and I feel something happening. I'm not all that sure what it is seeing as I'd never had a baby before. I call the so-called experts, my Dr. They tell me to come in that afternoon they will check everything out. I call your Grammy first..She tries to act like she isn't freaking out...she fails miserably. I call your dad he doesn't even try to act like he isn't freaking out.

That afternoon your dad and I head to the Dr.'s office. They tell me I'm leaking and need to get to the Hospital to induce labor and sometime tomorrow I should have a baby. I ask them if I can eat because I am oh so hungry. They tell me no. I am mad.

We get to the hospital they admit me and get me to my room. Once I am there they start poking me and strapping me down. A couple of hours later I start having contractions. They hurt really, really bad. The nurse tells me mercifully that I can have drugs to ease my pain. I accept readily. So things go fine from there. Then a few hours later the Dr. notices I'm not progressing anymore and your heart rate keeps going down. They don't think your going to fit through the birthing canal. They tell me a c-section is in order. I cry. That does not sound like fun. I tell your dad to run and get Grammy and Grandpa. They come back up. Oh no we forgot to get the camera!! Grandpa runs back down stairs and comes up with...ta da...a camera! They dress your Daddy in scrubs and take me in prep me for surgery. I was so tired I had been up for hours. I just wanted you out and safe so we could both take a nap.

4:00 am on Thursday March 29, 2007 they cut me open. 4:09 am you enter the world! I have never been so proud.

Extraordinary Beginnings

Scarlett, these blogs my dear, are for you! I'm sharing them with friends and family if they so choose to read them but my true intentions for the blog is that one day when we are far apart from one another you can read these and see how I'm feeling now. I'm a new mama. You are a beautiful mystery to me. Everyday you do something new and amazing. There isn't room in my head to remember it forever so this will serve as the answers to those inevitable questions. Where where you when you found out you were pregnant with me? How did you feel? How was my birth? Of course I'll tell you those answers but it's also nice to have stuff written down. You know for reference.

So to take it wayyy back (your now 6 months old) let me tell you about the day I found out my oven was indeed bun filled. I had just gotten home from a long day of work. It was a Wednesday in July 2006. I was on the phone with Shari catching up. Then I realized I've been feeling weird. So I took a test. I didn't for real think it would come up positive. But there it was in white and pink. 2 lines staring back at me saying "You're in for it now girl...your life will never be the same."